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04.12.2019

More trains running between Doncaster and Felixstowe

iPort Rail (UK) has launched its fifth daily rail freight service, just over a year after becoming officially operational. The new route will run five days a week to and from iPort Rail in Doncaster and Felixstowe and is operated...

04.12.2019

ID Logistics extends its footprint to USA

ID Logistics, a French provider of contract logistics, has acquired the assets of the American company Jagged Peak, a logistics company specialised in e-commerce, multi-channel and consumer products. Eric Hémar, chairman and...

04.12.2019

RCM and Instant launched by Hamburg Süd

Hamburg Süd, an affiliate of Maersk Line, has launched a tool for remote container management (RCM) technology for reefer container shipments. The carrier said that the RCM application monitors parameters such as temperature,...

04.12.2019

New CFO for Interroll

Heinz Hössli will move to Interroll and take over the position of group CFO. Hössli, currently CFO/vice president advanced materials of the Bühler Group in Uzwil (Switzerland), will assume his new responsibilities as CFO and...

04.12.2019

Swiss opens Edelweiss bellies for Mexican exporters

ITJ was the first to announce it: Swiss World Cargo has now opened its Cancun station for exports, which means that all flights between Zurich and Cancun can now carry freight on both their inbound and outbound journeys. Swiss...

04.12.2019

Digital Goodie acquires UK-based Maginus

Digital Goodie, the Finnish creator of a digital platform for headless connected commerce, has acquired Maginus, a UK-based company developing e-commerce software and technology solutions for mid-market retailers and...

04.12.2019

Joint platform for transport logistics

The software developer Inform has added a comprehensive electronic platform for industrial transport logistics to its product portfolio. More than 6,600 transport companies and about 70 attached shippers have already registered,...

04.12.2019

Lloyd's Register issues electronic certificates

The Lloyd’s Register (LR) classification company issues its electronic certificates for ships with the Panama flag. In the first phase of this release since 1 November, only those newly issued and reissued certificates will be...

04.12.2019

Krummen Kerzers wins Swiss logistics award

The Swiss transport company Krummen Kerzers has won the Swiss logistics award for its pilot project “Goodbye Diesel – Hello LNG” with its partner Lidl Schweiz. The aim is to reduce CO2 emissions caused by transport. The prize...

04.12.2019

Seeking investors for Reico Spedition

Reico Spedition, which is headquartered in Zossen (Brandenburg, Germany), is preparing for a fresh start. The district court in Potsdam had ordered a temporary insolvency administration for the company’s assets. Torben Ottmar...

04.12.2019

Ceva enables mission to honour fallen US veterans

It has always been a dream of Morrill Worcester, founder of the USA-based non-profit organisation Wreaths Across America (WAA), to place a wreath in honour of every US veteran laid to rest around the world. To breathe life...

04.12.2019

Belarus to upgrade its key transport corridors

Belarus will receive a major boost with a EUR 259 million loan programme provided by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) for the expansion of its road network. The package includes the upgrade of 12...

04.12.2019

“Curiosity of the Day”

"The Poseidon Adventure" was the film that was showing in the "Titanic's" cinema the night the passenger liner sank.

03.12.2019

Small port, great strengths

The Moldovan inland port of Giurgiulesti has a rather special feel to it. Our correspondent Josef Müller last visited it for the ITJ in 2014, reporting on 400,000 t of annual throughput. Now the 1 million t mark has been reached....

03.12.2019

Russia: Delo Group buys majority share in TransContainer

Russian Railways (RZD) sold 50% + 2 shares in TransContainer in an auction held on 27 November to the Sergey Shishkarev-led Delo Group. The start price was RUB 36.2 billion (USD 566.3 million). The RF government approved a...

03.12.2019

BG Freight Line links Dunkirk, Dublin and Cork

In the short sea shipping sector, BG Freight Line has decided to establish a service to and from the Republic of Ireland. Three vessels with a capacity of 1,000 teu each, furnished with reefer equipment, will call Dunkirk...

03.12.2019

New heads for airports association ADV

During its annual meeting, the airports association ADV held the regular election of its administrative board for a next three years’ mandate. The ADV statues stipulate that the administrative board is the association’s highest...

03.12.2019

LIS opens subsidiary in Spain

The German software manufacturer LIS will continue its expansion strategy and open a new subsidiary in Spain. Based in O Barco in Galicia, a team of six employees will serve new customers from Spain and Portugal. After...

03.12.2019

Japanese and Germans look back on five years of JV

In December 2014, Lufthansa Cargo and ANA Cargo launched their close bilateral air cargo joint venture. The fifth anniversary of the partnership gives both airlines the opportunity to look back on their cooperation. ANA Cargo...

03.12.2019

VIIA focuses on climate-neutral services

The French Ro-La operator VIIA plans to make all its long-haul overland services climate-neutral as from 2020. Just by shifting cargo previously transported by semitrailers onto the railways, CO2 emissions are reduced by 94%, the...